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BIFROST* ENGINE 1.2 released!Another improved version of the BIFROST* ENGINE is now available! Download it here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027405[/u…
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BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 1In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. …
... and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in ... move a set of multicolor tiles in hi-res coordinates. ... all moving tiles;
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BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 2This second demo shows animated and moving tiles together, and also how to implement collision detection. This knowledge should be enough to implemen…
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BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 4In previous posts I demonstrated how to move multicolor tiles up and down smoothly by a single pixel, and sideways by an entire char (8 pixels). Thi…
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Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... 4 attributes, getting 16x16 pixels tiles. Is this the best way ... platformer then the time to draw tiles shouldn't be an issue ...Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
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i ...Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
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1. Draw TILES to backbuffer
2. Copy ...BIFROST* ENGINE 1.2 released!Another improved version of the BIFROST* ENGINE is now available! Download it here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027405[/u…
... map and BIFROST* will automatically draw/animate everything for you. This ... new internal routines to directly draw tiles instantly on screen, I strongly ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 1In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. …
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for (f = 0; ...BIFROST* ENGINE 1.2 released!Another improved version of the BIFROST* ENGINE is now available! Download it here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027405[/u…
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[*] When using automatically animated tiles, you can choose if you ... would have time to draw and erase 6 tiles per frame instead ... won't be possible to draw tiles on the edges (i.e ...A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... won't need to draw any tiles by itself, thus ... game would like to draw tiles, so it simply keeps ... draw some tiles somewhere on screen, it can simply "reconfigure" these tiles to draw ... specific tiles at certain screen positions ...Tile routinesHi all, Please does anyone have any examples of tile routines in pure asm to set up maptile screens. I would like to try and understand them and ti…
... single tile then you can draw them all ;)
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hidden outside ...z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
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for (tptr = tiles; tptr != tiles + NUM_TILES ...BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 2: static tilesThis tutorial provides some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text, it's strongly recommended that you (re-)read [URL="h…
... some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text ... to minimize background restrictions: draw your multicolor image such ... the trick was used to draw eyes (yellow & red ... cases. For instance, multicolor tiles in Buzzsaw typically leave ...New NIRVANA+ feature: wide tiles!The size of each bicolor tile in [b]NIRVANA+[/b] is 2x2 characters (16x16 pixels), like this: [img]http://i60.tinypic.com/mw358y.png[/img] [i]* M…
... have to create pre-shifted tiles for all intermediate positions, like ... provides support for [b]wide tiles[/b] (24x16 pixels) also!< ... planning to use [b]wide tiles[/b], I suggest downloading [b ... The original routine to draw regular bicolor tiles is now a little ...TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
... own "canvas" I created and draw the Screen$ in Paintbrush/MSPaint ... SHOCKED I use MSPaint to draw them and thought I ... different image types such as Tiles, Sprites, Screen$, Characters, and ... for creating full Screen images, Tiles, Sprites, Sounds, Map Maker, ...Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…
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z88dk + splib2: another question (sprite instancing)I'm making some tests with z88dk+splib2, with the idea of creating a game sometime in the future, and I have come across a problem. Let's suppose I …
... I can create 6 different tiles and draw the whole screen with ... them as sprites and not tiles, I must create a sprite ... , I would have to use tiles for everything, which means moving ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
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2. The display draw order has changed. In splib2 ... program should draw sprites first before doing background tiles to ensure ... added to quickly animate background tiles.
...Speccy 128k Double Buffering.If I understand this right, you display either of the screens, and draw to the one that is not being displayed. Am i right in thinking that the Non …
... either of the screens, and draw to the one that is ... the Non displayed screen (ie. draw screen) is paged in at ... ?? If so, where would sprites/tiles etc be stored ?? In the ...Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
... how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw ...Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…
... noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it ... command was used to draw lines and the DRAW statement was completely ... position isn't updated after draw)
B = blank (move but ... don't draw)
"U8R8D8L8" would draw a square 8 ...Manic miner remake....Hi all. I just started a Manic Miner remake using Python + Pygame. The aim is to be as pixel perfect as possible (except perhaps I won't have colour…
... be willing to draw a new set of tiles for MM? I ...Draw (x1,y1) to (x2, y2)?I was never very good at math. :( Given the above variables, what should I do to draw a line between the two pixels? How do I calculate the values fo…
... , what should I do to draw a line between the two ... I calculate the values for DRAW?
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I've seen ...Tips on optimizing some newbie assembly routinesI'm starting to learn some assembly language. The best way to learn is to actually code something you are going to use, so I'm creating a very simple…
... byte table of 256 8x8 tiles.
My ... br />
; Let's draw that character
push de ... /> ; we are going to draw (stored on the a register ... br />
; And just draw 8 bytes to the screen ...wanna draw zx graphics :)Is anybody looking for a zx graphics ? I would like to help with graphics if there are projects that need it. Here is an example of a sprite (may be …
Oooh! Good draw!England has come up trumps with the World Cup 2010 draw. We're in group C, playing against USA, Slovenia and Algeria. I think it's pretty safe to say…
England has come up trumps with the World Cup 2010 draw. We're in group C, playing against USA, Slovenia and Algeria. I think it's pretty safe to say that we won't be knocked out of the 1st round :DHow works the Line-Draw ROM routine ?The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets of parameters: X,Y coordinat…
... related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets ... show a working example to draw a line in asm ? because ...DRAW x,y,a Algorithm - how does the ROM do it?Hi all, Getting on with SpecOS, and one of the things I would love to do is to preserve the original ROM's behaviour when drawing Arcs. This is don…
... . This is done by using DRAW x,y,a where the ... provide an example of the DRAW command implemented in BASIC - but ... be clear, I can already draw bezier curves (and therefore, so ...
